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MTFB OSCAR UPDATE

I'm continuing my first attempts at predicting what will win Oscars on the night of March 12th.  Today's  updated categories: International, Animated and Documentary Features as well as Production Design, Costume and Makeup/Hair.  Films are ranked in order of likelihood to win with their previous ranking in parentheses. I have highlighted TFF nominees in Bold.

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

1) All Quiet on the Western Front (1)

2) Argentina 1985 (2)

3) Close (3)

4) EO (4)

5) The Quiet Girl (5)

ANIMANTED FEATURE

1) GDT's Pinocchio (1)

2) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2)

3) Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (3)

4) Turning Red (4)

5) The Sea Beast (5)

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

1) Fire of Love (4)

2) Navalny (3)

3) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (1)

4) All That Breathes (2)

5) The House of Splinters (5)

PRODUCTION DESIGN

1) Elvis (1)

2) Babylon (2)

3) All Quiet on the Western Front (4)

4) Avatar: The Way of Water (3)

5) The Fabelmans (5)

COSTUME DESIGN

1) Elvis (1)

2) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2)

3) Babylon (3)

4) Everything Everywhere All at Once (4)

5) Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (5)

MAKEUP/HAIR

1) Elvis (1)

2) The Whale (2)

3) All Quiet on the Western Front (4)

4) The Batman (3)

5) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (5)

BAFTA WINNERS

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) named its "Best of" for 2022 last night and Edward Berger's All Quiet on the Western Front was the big winner picking up seven trophies including Best Film and Direction.

TFF Films that picked up hardware were:

Cate Blanchett winning Best Actress for TAR

Charlotte Wells for Best Debut for a British Writer, Director or Producer for Aftersun

TFF adjacent documentary (it was screened in Elk Park on the Wednesday night prior to TFF beginning) Navalny was named Best Documentary.

The complete BAFTA winners list is here.

DIRECTOR GUILD WINNERS

The DGA named Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert Best Director for a Feature Film for Everything Everywhere All at Once besting, among others Todd Field/TAR who was the only DGA nominee for a Feature Film from TFF.

From TFF, Charlotte Wells win Best First Feature for Aftersun.

The Directors Guild list of winners is linked here.

VISITATIONS

WOMEN TALKING: Sarah Polley at Deadline.com.

ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED: Laura Poitras at NBR.

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The People's Telluride / TFF #49 and Venice / The Holdovers May Still Release in 2022///BREAKING NEWS: Holdovers on Brink of Sale

Posting a little later than normal today...It's a Monday.  What can I say?

THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE

This reminder...Now that TFF #49 has concluded...you know what to do!  Send in your ratings of the films you saw.  The deadline for ratings is this Thursday, Sept. 15th.

Remember to rate as follows: 1 to 5 scale with 1 meaning it was bad and 5 means it was great.

Email them to mpgort@gmail.com OR michael_speech@hotmail.com

TFF #49 AND VENICE

TFF #49 films were well rewarded at the conclusion of the Venice Film Festival:

Golden Lion (Best Film in Competition) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed/Laura Poitras

Silver Lion for Best Direction: Luca Guadagnino/Bones and All

Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Cate Blanchett/TAR

Marcello Marstroianni Award for Best Young Actress/Actor: Taylor Russell/Bones and All

Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin also landed two top prizes with Colin Ferrell picking up Best Actor over a very lauded performance from Brendan Fraser in The Whale and McDonagh won for Best Screenplay.

Check out all the Venice winners here from FirstShowing.net.

ALEXANDER PAYNE'S THE HOLDOVERS MAY STILL RELEASE IN 2022

Jordan Ruimy/World of Reel is reporting that Alexander Payne's The Holdovers might still make a run at a release date before the end of the year.  

As you may recall, I wrote about the possibility that the new film might make a sneak appearance at Telluride which did not happen.

Ruimy, citing reporting from Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline , tells us that the film starring, Paul Giamatti,  was to have been screened for possible distributors this past weekend at the Toronto Fest.  That begs the question...if it's ready to screen for possible distributors, why didn't it play TFF?  The word I heard was that the film wasn't "ready" but it WAS ready one week later?

Here's the reporting from World of Reel about the film's "readiness for Telluride" and then the story suggesting that it would be/was screened over the weekend at TIFF.

And here's Deadline's original reporting.

BREAKING NEWS:  THE HOLDOVERS ON BRINK OF SALE TO FOCUS FEATURES

This morning, after having posted this story, we found out that Focus Features is on the verge of closing a $30 million dollar deal to acquire The Holdovers.

Details here from Deadline.com

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